Recent Updates
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Election 2020 Today: No winner yet, Trump’s court threat
Legal Compliance 11/05/2020NO WINNER: President Donald Trump carried the prized battleground of Florida, then he and Democrat Joe Biden shifted their focus to three Northern industrial states ? Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania ? that could prove crucial in determining who ...
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Supreme Court changes fuel moves to protect abortion access
Legal Compliance 11/01/2020A vast swath of West Texas has been without an abortion clinic for more than six years. Planned Parenthood plans to change that with a health center it opened recently in Lubbock. It’s a vivid example of how abortion-rights groups are str...
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Trump, Biden lawyer up, brace for White House legal battle
Legal Compliance 10/24/2020President Donald Trump’s and Democratic rival Joe Biden’s campaigns are assembling armies of powerful lawyers for the possibility that the race for the White House is decided not at the ballot box but in court. They have been engaging in ...
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Trump taps ‘eminently qualified’ Barrett for Supreme Court
Legal Compliance 09/29/2020President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effor...
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Court allows public nuisance suits against 3 Alabama casinos
Legal Compliance 09/26/2020Courts in two rural counties were wrong when they dismissed lawsuits filed by the state seeking to have three casinos declared public nuisances, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday.The decision meant the state can resume cases challenging operatio...
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
Legal Compliance 09/19/2020Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer...
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Census Bureau must temporarily halt winding down operations
Legal Compliance 09/06/2020The U.S. Census Bureau for now must stop following a plan that would have it winding down operations in order to finish the 2020 census at the end of September, according to a federal judge's order.U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California...
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Int'l court: Hezbollah member guilty in Lebanon ex-PM death
Legal Compliance 08/18/2020A U.N.-backed tribunal on Tuesday convicted one member of the Hezbollah militant group and acquitted three others of involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.The Special Tribunal for Lebanon said Salim Ayya...
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Court record in Colombia reveals Uribe's mounting legal bind
Legal Compliance 08/10/2020The frantic voice message to an inmate in Colombia’s notorious La Picota prison came days before powerful former President Alvaro Uribe was up against a court deadline to submit witness testimony in a potentially damaging case against him.&ldqu...
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Appeals court sides with teen who spoke out against assault
Legal Compliance 08/08/2020A federal appeals court has ruled that a lower court was justified in blocking the suspension of a Maine high school student who posted a note in a bathroom to draw attention to sexual assault.Cape Elizabeth schools suspended Aela Mansmann, then a 15...
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Malaysian ex-PM Najib arrives in court for graft verdict
Legal Compliance 07/28/2020Ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak arrived at court Tuesday for a verdict in the first of several corruption trials linked to the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund.The outcome is widely seen as a test of the rule of l...
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Given a chance, Trump would push court pick before election
Legal Compliance 07/19/2020President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have tried to make it clear: Given the chance, they would push through a Supreme Court nominee should a vacancy occur before Election Day.The issue has taken on new immediacy with the ...